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J. H; SGHEBL.

CONVERTIBLE KEG.

No. 338,443. Patented Mar. 23, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. SOHEEL, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

CONVERTIBLE KEG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 338,443, dated March 23, 1886.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN H. ScHEEL, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Convertible Keg, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a combined hoop and bail t'orkegs; and it consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement ofparts, as hereinafter fully described,and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure l is a perspective view of my invention, and Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the combined hoop and bail removed.

The keg A is of ordinary bilged form and hooped in any ordinary manner, except at the head end, where it is provided with the hoop B, which has hinged to it a bail, O. The hoop B and bail C are both ofshcet-iron, and the bail ispi-votedtothehoopby thepinsaa. Theinner radius of the bail G from the center of the line connecting the pivots is the same or slightly less than the larger exterior radius of the hoop B, so that it can only fall to the level of and rest against the middle or lower portion of the \Vhen the hoop A is applied to the keg, the bail may be folded to one side, and will lie in line with the hoop, as shown in Fig. 1, and appears as part of the hoop, so that when the head D is in place the keg will have the usual appearance as though without a bail.

To remove the head D, the hoop B and perhaps the hoop below it will have to be removed. The head being removed, the hoop B will be replaced upon the end of the keg and secured by rivets passed through the orifices I) b made therein, so by means of the bail C, the keg may be used as a bucket or pail. By this means the small butter and other packages which are now destroyed after the contents are removed may be utilized and made to serve useful purposes.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- As an improved article of manufacture, a combined hoop and bail consisting of a hoop provided with a pivoted bail having substantially the same inner radius, from the center of the line connecting the pivots as the larger exterior radius of the hoop, as set forth.

JOHN H. SGHEEL.

\Vitnesses:

H. A. WEsT, O. SEDGWIGK. 

